I worked at a grocery store for 3 years. Six months of bagging, 2.5 years of cashier. As a bagger, the cashiers were all girls. When I left, most of the cashiers were guys. It changes all the time.
I always enjoyed bagging after being a cashier. You didnt have to deal with customers and it was very mindless. Hell, there were days that I didnt speak to a single person as a bagger.
Cashiering was an easy job, once you got the routine down. I learned the PLU's fairly quickly and never really had to think about them. A couple of us ended up having competitions to see who could go the fastest. They had some sort of Items per minute scale they would post. I won a lot.
The customers were always annoying as hell. They never look at the sales signs. I loved the one item per customer sales, 10 people in a row with shopping carts full of that item. If something got priced wrong on the computer, they would always blame you for it. Most the time you wouldnt actually know the price of the item unless it was something VERY common, considering prices changed all the time with sales and such. They dont understand that the cashier really has NO control on how the item comes up on the computer.
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
the snooty woman who thinks '10 items or less' applies to all but her....
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Oh man, I forgot about them... grr. I think some of them tried playing as if they couldnt read English, since we had a large amount of mixed ethnicities. Oh yea and the ones who come into your line even though your light is off AND the sign says Closed.
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Originally Posted by eribrav
3. Don't like the pay? Find something else to do. Go find another job, that probably involves more responsibility, more physical and mental discomfort. Or go further your education.
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At 15, the grocery store was the only place that would hire me. Plus, I was still in the most difficult classes at my school...
